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I am still busy on my jackets, Pa tied up 18 ready to send off tomorrow I am busy every minute of the day and evenings when I get my jackets done my eyes are too tired to read and we go off to bed at eight about every night.

Amos was up at the store Friday afternoon he takes the bus that goes past his house. the cold weather cuts off his breath the same as it used to Abbies. Clint Curtis dropped dead this week, Amos and Ella went to his funeral. Amos said he was just about as he was, and we think he will go as sudden his symptoms are bad.

My washing the most of it I did yesterday and his shirts I did to day things didnt freeze so I took advantage of the mild weather and washed up the back rooms I was ashamed of them every time I had occation to go out through them and when Lena was here too. our soft coal tracks but its much better to burn in our heater. I am getting my dinner with the sifted coal, cooking onions and potatoes, pot roast and cream pie. I made a baked indian pudding this week, but didn't have enough milk to add to it, and it was not as good as common. Pa has gone over to the barn to feed and I must prepare dinner.

(after dinner) The sun still shines out and our snow is lowering every minute. We have not dug many paths, we find it does not pay. I feed the birds most every day. Pa's pagoda does not attract them much they are afraid to enter. Your little dog will sigh for his meat diet and welcome his mistress, you ought to let him have a bone to gnaw of an evening, poor little animal. well this is a miserable letter and not much in it but Pa has more news in his, he collects as he goes.
Ma